Uyghur mother Patigul Ghulam has been arrested by the Chinese police for drawing attention to the case of her missing son. Ghulam has been detained before, placed under surveillance and house arrest, and it is unclear when (and perhaps if) she will be released.

In the USA, the husband of Shaima Alawadi, a woman of Iraqi descent who was brutally killed in 2012, has been sentenced to 26-years-to-life for murdering his wife. Initially, he had tried to make the murder look like a hate crime.